Genetic and epigenetic regulation of stem cell homeostasis in plants

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2008, Pages 243-251

  Lodha, M ^a   Marco, C F ^a   Timmermans, M C P ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; KNOX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; KNOTTED1 LIKE HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN;

APICAL MERISTEM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STEM CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; REVIEW; GENETIC REGULATION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; MERISTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 68549111327     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2008.73.044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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